Robert Bielik wrote: > Brian Mathis skrev: >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Robert Bielik <robert.bielik at xponaut.se> wrote: >>> I'm converting Ubuntu startup scripts to work on CentOS (5.3), and I'm having trouble finding out how >>> to start a daemon in a certain directory? For Ubuntu, start-stop-daemon has the option -d to set the >>> working directory. >>> >>> TIA >>> /Rob >> You could "cd" there in the script before starting it. > > Wouldn't that just involve the session which starts the daemon, but not the daemon session itself? Or does > "daemon" startup the child session within the same working directory ? Child processes inherit pretty much everything from their parent at the time of the fork(), including the working directory. If they want to change, they have to do it afterwards. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com